Look at some Indian recipes. Hindus have been vegetarians for centuries and have developed some of the most exquisite vegetarian dishes I've ever tasted. You can find lots online if you search for vegetarian Indian recipes.

Dinner tonight will be a vegetable curry based on potatoes and peas, mildly hot, with a very hot mint-coriander-yogurt chutney. We had dal makani a few days ago, a mix of lentils, chickpeas and beans cooked with some other vegetables. Another favorite is chana masala, chickpeas in spices. The secret to the cuisine is in the use of spices and herbs which make everything wonderfully tasty. We don't miss meat or fish at all. If you want to look up specific cookbooks, search for books by Julie Sahni or Madhur Jaffrey, both excellent resources.

Another cuisine which is light on meats is Middle Eastern. Again they use lot of spices to flavor their grains and legumes. Look for books written by Claudia Roden and Paula Wolfert.

Of course there are lots of good vegetarian cookbooks which are Western too - Deborah Madison, Anna Thomas and Mollie Katzen have written many.

Yes! I can't recommend Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone enough! It's veggie night every night at our home and this book is well thumbed.I am also Indian and so very often it is store bought chapatis (unleavened whole wheat Indian flat bread) with a curry and daal. Sometimes I don't bother with two separate sides and just add cooked lentils or chickpeas to the vegetable curry. Khichuri is a one dish meal that combines mung dal (split mung beans) with rice and is very satisfying with a teaspoon of warm ghee on it. Often times it is pasta with beans. In winter it's veggie soups with lentils or beans in them or bean/lentil soups with veggies in them.These days been experimenting with quinoa. See the following thread for specific ideas and recipes:http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/...

I've grown fond of a modified English breakfast of Heinz Baked Beans on toast with fried tomato and mushroom halves. You can hold the fried egg, rashers, and black/white puddings if you want to keep it vegetarian. It's filling enough as it is.

There's always falafel in a pita with tomato, onion, lettuce, and tzaziki sauce.

Raclette without a raclette oven is simple enough if you cook up a pan of leeks or onion, mushrooms, cooked potatoes, whatever else you like and then pour melted cheese over all. Give it a good grind of black pepper and put some sour pickles on your plate. tasty.

cheese souffle and salad. just posted a link to an easy Jacques Pepin recipe on another post. Here you go: